Window structure



May 31, 1966 H. w. KELLEHER 3,253,365

WINDOW STRUCTURE Filed oct. 1, 196s se 24 54- V Q a?. l l l 4 loo '04' i 3. F57 I2 'o f f INVENTOR. HERBERT WKELLEHER United States Patent O W 3,253,366 WINDW STRUCTURE Herbert W. Kelleher, 709 rlfromhly, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. Filed Oct. 1, 1963, Ser. No. 312,939 4 Claims. (Cl. t9-404) This invention relates to a closure construction of the sliding type adapted for exterior walls of buildings and the like and relates more particularly to a construction for holding the fixed closure panel in place in a novel manner in the opening of the frame. Features of this invention may be utilized in an interior sliding closure construction.

The closure includes a frame having a horizontally movable ventilator or sliding closure panel therein as well as a fixed closure panel. The sliding closure panel is positioned at the outer side or exterior of the frame when the frame is installed in the opening of a building structure and the fixed closure panel is positioned towards the inner side or interior of the frame in relation to the sliding closure panel. The fixed closure panel is a separate unit that can be installed in the opening of the frame after the frame is mounted in the opening of the building structure. The fixed closure panel is securely held in place in a novel manner to prevent entry through the closure, door or window, as the case may be, when the sliding closure panel or ventilator is closed and locked.

The sliding closure construction of the present invention is designed for weather resistance and tightness in general under any weather condition which produces a pressure differential between the outside and inside of the sliding closure. It is also important that weather tightness be achieved by a construction which can be shipped in knock-down condition and accurately and quickly assembled at the job site with minimum labor and time. Prior sliding doors, windows or the like have been proposed to meet this requirement but have been accompanied with certain disadvantages with respect toY assembly, weather tightness, proper adjustment and attractiveness of the resulting closure construction.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a closure construction in which the fixed panel is held in place in the opening 4of the frame in a novel manner.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a closure construction in which the fixed closure panel is positioned in the opening of the frame in relation to the sliding closure panel so that the fixed closure panel is held in place to prevent entry through the closure when the sliding closure panel is closed and locked.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a construction of the aforementioned type wherein the sill member of the frame is provided with a pair of spaced apart longitudinally extending upstanding ribs for the fixed closure panel, a lug or bracket between the ribs extending upwardly from the sill member, the bottom rail f the fixed closure panel including a pair of spaced side walls, and a third wall on the fixed panel extending transversely of the side walls, the head member of the frame having a recess of a depth sufiicient to permit the fixed closure panel of the frame to be installed in the opening of the frame by lifting the fixed closure panel vertically so as to move the top rail thereon into the recess to a position therein until the lower surface of the bottom rail of the fixed panel clears the top surfaces of the ribs and lug provided on the sill member and then lowering the fixed panel into a position with the inner surfaces of the side walls in engagement with the outer surfaces of the ribs and the third wall in engagement with the lug to hold the fixed panel against lateral and horizontal movement.

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Patented May 3l, 1966 A still further object of the present invention is to provide a structure of the aforementioned type wherein an elongated detachable strip is connected to the head member abutting and extending between the inner stile of the fixed closure panel and the oppositely facing jamb member of the frame for closing the remaining portion of the recess in the head member.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel sliding closure construction of exceptional weather tightness and of a facile assembly.

It is thus another object of this invention to provide a simplified low cost structure of the aforementioned type having certain advantages contributing to eciency, reliability and long life as well as ease of maintenance.

OtherV objects `of the invention will become apparent as the following description proceeds especially when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrating a preferred embodiment. of the invention, wherein:

FIGURE 1 is an elevation of the installed window looking from the inside of the building structure.

FIGURE 2 is a sectional view taken'on the line 2 2 of FiG. l, looking in the direction of the arrows.

FIGURE 3 is an enlarged sectional View taken on the line 3 3 of FIG. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of FIG. 3 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

FIGURE 5 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional View taken on the line 5 5 of FIG. 4 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

FIGURE 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 6 6 of FIG. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

FIGURE 7 is a sectional view taken on the line 7 7 of FIG. 6 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing, FIG. 1 is an elevation of the closure, window, door or the like, generally indicated at 20, looking from the inside or interior of a building structure Z1 when the window is installed in the opening of the building struct-ure. The term window will be used throughout the specification but it should be understood that the same 'construction may be applied to doors. When reference is made to the window 2) in the following description the exterior will refer to the side of the window that faces -the outside or weather side of the building structure when the window is installed in an opening and the interior will refer to the inside or room side of a building structure.

The window Ztl is preferably fabricated from aluminum extrusions and has a `frame 22, a movable ventilator or sliding closure panel 24, and a fixed closure panel 26. The frame 22 has a horizontal head member 30, a horizontal sill member 32 and two vertical jamb members 34 and 316. The horizontal and vertical frame members are interconnected at the ends and secured in place by scre'ws 3S as is conventional in the art.

The ventilator 241i is shown in FIG. 3 in a closed position. Rollers 40 attached. to the ventilator 24 ride on the track 4.2 as the ventilator 24 movers horizontally to the open position indicated by dotted lines 44 in FIG. 3. An operating and locking handle 46 provided on the ventilator 24 locks the ventilator 24 in a closed position. The ventilator 24 is positioned adjacent the exterior side of the frame 22. The fixed panel 2.6 has a horizontal top rail 48, a horizontal bottom rail 56, a vertical jamb stile 52 and a ve-rtical meeting rail or inner stile 54. The bottom rail Sti illustrated in FlG. 5, is dimensioned to have a snug fit inside the walls 56 and S8 of the jamb stile 52.

vThe bottom rail 50 lits in the meeting rail or inner stile E 54 and the top rail 48 lits in the jamb stile 52 and inner stile 54 in the same manner, with the panel members 48, 50, 52 and 54 secured together by screws 60.

A pane of glass 62 is held in place in the xed closure panel 26 by the resilient retaining strip 64. The retaining strip extends around the periphery of the glass. A pane of glass 66 is held in place in the ventilator 24 by the resilient retaining strip 68 in like manner.

The iixed closure panel 26 sets on the sill member 32 of the frame 22 and is positioned and held in place laterally by t-he pair of elongated upstanding ribs 70 and 72 that `are integral with and extend across substantially the entire length of the sill member 32. The ribs 70 and 72, as best illustrated in FIGURE 5, have a height sufcient to engage the lower edges of the side walls of rail 50 as will subsequently be described.

A bracket or lug 74 is provided between the ribs 70 and 72 to hold the xed closure panel 26 from moving horizontally in the frame 22. The bracket 74 has a portion 76 that is adapted to lie against the inclined wall 78 of the sill member 32. A portion S of the bracket 74 is otset from the portion 76 and spaced away from the wall 78 when the bracket 74 is attached to the sill mem- Iber 32 by screw S2 as best illustrated in FIGURE 4. The ribs 70 and 72 restrain the bracket 74 from turning about the screw 82.

The head member 30 and the jamb member 36 of the frame 22 is provided with a continuous recess which extends along the entire length of said members 30 and 36. To install the xed closure panel 26 in the frame 22, the top rail 48 of the panel 26 is raised into the recess 84 (FIG. 6) of the head member 3i) of the frame 22 far enough to permit the bottom rail G` of the panel 26 to clear the ribs 70 and 72 provided on the sill member 32. The panel 26 is then lowered on the sill `member 32 with the lower edges of the side walls 90 and 92 of the bottom rail 50 straddling the ribs 70 and 72 as best illustrated in FIGURE 5. The panel 26 is then moved horizontally into the recess 93 of the jamb member 36 until the transverse wall 86 of the panel 26 strikes the bracket 74. The panel 26 is raised ove-r the bracket 74 and then lowered so that the surface 88 of the wall 86 abuts the portion 80 of the bracket 74 holding the panel 26 against horizontal movement. The wall 86 may be an end wall provided on the jamb stile 52 or may be any transversely extending wall provided on the bottom rail Si) or stile 52 which spans the space between the side walls 90 and 92 of the bottom rail 50. This would depend on the manner in which the bottom rail 50 and jamb stile S2 are formed and connected to form the lower right hand corner of the panel 26 as viewed in FIGURE l.

An elongated removable retaining strip 94 is secured to the head member 30 of the frame 22 by screws 96 so as to ll the remaining portion of the recess 84. Ribs 9S and 100 are positioned on the strip 94 to abut the downwardly extending portions 102 and 104 respectively of the head member 30 as best illustrated in FIGURE 6 to hold the strip 94 against lateral displacement. The strip extends horizontally from the jamb member 34 of the frame 22 to the inner stile of the panel 26.

The detachable strip 94 is in the interior of the window 20 in relation to the ventilator 24 and when the ventilator 24 is `closed and locked access to the strip 94 from the outside of the window 20 is prevented. Any attempt to track `would be provided on the sill member 32 on the interior side of the ribs 7i) and 72. The screen panel would be provided with rollers which would move on the track, with the top rail and jamb stile of the screen panel being received in a continuous recess provided in the frame and designated by the numeral in FIGURE 3.

The sliding closure panel 24' is likewise received in a continuous recess 122 provided in the jamb member 34 and the head member 30 adjacent the exterior side of the building structure as best illustrated in FIGURE 3. The sliding closure panel 24 is provided with a top rai-l, a bottom rail, a jamb stile and an inner stilewhich are interconnected in the same manner as described for the fixed closure panel 26. As mentioned previously, the sliding closure panel 24 is movable along the exterior side of the building on the track 42.

It will be 'further understood that t-he jamb members, head and sill members may be secured to the structure of the building wall in any suitable well known manner and may be assemibled and interconnected at their corners in a well known manner so as to provide a rectangular frame opening which is true and squared. The frame structure of the xed closure panel is similar to the sliding closure panel.

The head member 30 is provided with horizontally extending weatherstrip means 124 and 126 which extend the entire length of the recess 122 provided in the head member 30 and which are adapted to sealingly engage opposite sides of the sliding closure panel 24 as best illustrated in FIGURE 3. The recess 84 provided in the head member 30 carries weatherstrip means 128 which is adapted' to sealingly engage or contact the fixed closure panel 26 as best illustrated in FIGURE 6. The inner stile 54 of the fixed panel 26 carries weatherstrip means'130 which sealingly engages the sliding closure panel 24. The inner stile of the sliding closure panel 24 is likewise provided with weatherstrip means 132 which scalingly contacts the xed closure panel 26. The jamb member 34 is provided with a pair of vertically extending weatherstrip means which engage opposite sides of the sliding closure panel 24 when in the position illustrated in FIGURE 3. Likewise the jamb member 36 is provided with a weatherstrip element 136 which engages the weather or exterior side of the ixed panel as best illustrated in FIGURE 3.

With such a construction, Vwhen the closure is in a closed position as illustrated in FIGURE 1, the sliding panel 24 is in weathersealing relation to the frame 22. From the above description it is apparent that the lixed closure panel 26 is provided with weatherseal means around its periphery and likewise the sliding closure panel 24 is provided with weatherseal means at the top and bottom rails and at the inner stile and jamb member when the sliding panel 24 is closed.

The drawings and the foregoing specification constitute a description of the improved window structure in such full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to practice the invention, the scope of which is indicated by the appended claims.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a closure, the combination of, a head member, a sill member and spaced vertical jamb members providing a frame adapted to be installed in the opening of a building structure, at least one lixed closure panel and one sliding closure panel in the opening of said frame, said panels having jamb stiles, inner stiles and top and bottom rails, said head member and jamb members having a pair of laterally spaced continuous recesses therein for receiving respectively the top rails and jamb stiles of said panels, a track on the sill member for the sliding panel in alignment with one of said recesses, a pair of spaced apart longitudinally extending upstanding ribs on the sill member projecting inwardly of said frame in alignment with the other of said recesses, a lug between said ribs projecting inwardly of said frame from said sill member, the bottom rail of said lixed closure panel including a pair of spaced side walls, and an end wall on the jamb stile of said fixed closure panel extending transversely of said side walls, the depth of said other recess in said head member being suficient to permit the fixed closure panel to be installed in the opening of the frame by lifting the fixed closure panel vertically so as to move the top rail thereon into the other recess to a position therein until the lower surface of the bottom rail of the fixed closure panel clears the top surfaces of said ribs and lug and then lowering the fixed closure panel into a position with the inner surfaces of said side walls in engagement with the outer surfaces of said ribs and said end wall in engagement with said lug to hold said fixed closure panel against lateral and horizontal movement, and an elongated detachable strip connected to said head member abutting and extending between the inner stile of said fixed closure panel and the oppositelyfacing jamb member for closing the remaining portion of said other-recess in said head member. l

2. In a closure structure, a rectangular frame including an elongated upper head member, an elongated lower sill member and a pair of elongated spaced apart parallel jamb members, said head and jamb members including a longitudinally extending recess therein opening inwardly of said frame for receiving a closure panel, said sillmember including a pair of longitudinally extending spaced apart parallel ribs projecting inwardly of said frame, said ribs having inner and outer side surfaces, a fixed closure panel positioned within said frame, said panel having a dimension between the top and -bottom thereof greater than the distance between the sill member at the ribs and the head member adjacent the recess but less than the distance between the sill member at the ribs and the head member within the recess, said ribs being not greater -in extent inwardly of the frame than the dimension between the top of the panel positioned on the sill member at the ribs and extending into the recess and the bottom of the recess whereby said panel is installed in the frame by inserting the top of the panel within the recess and subsequently lowering said panel over said ribs, said panel being provided with spaced apart parallel side walls having lower edges at the bottom thereof, said lower edges having inner and outer side surfaces, said panel having a thickness whereby the inner side surface of said lower edges engage the outer side surface of said longitudinally extending ribs, with said ribs positioned between said lower edges with the panel installed in the frame to prevent movement of the bottom panel transversely of the sill member.

3. Structure as set forth in claim 2 wherein a transversely extending wall is provided depending from the bottom of said panel and a lug secured to the sill member in engagement with said transversely extending wall with the panel installed in said frame to prevent sliding movement of said panel longitudinally of said sill member.

4. Structure as set forth in claim 2 and further including an elongated strip connected to the head member of the frame and extending between the panel installed in the frame and one jamb member of the frame in the recess in the head member.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED sTATEs PATENTS 2,842,236 7/1958 Axelrod -189-75 2,918,708 12/1959 -shrpetal 2o-35 3,111,726 11/1963 Grossman 2o-52 3,136,396 6/1964 Sullivan 2189-46 HARRISON R. MOSELEY, Primary Examiner.

A. I. BREIER, Assistant Examiner. 

2. IN A CLOSURE STRUCTURE, A RECTANGULAR FRAME INCLUDING AN ELONGATED UPPER HEAD MEMBER, AN ELONGATED LOWER SILL MEMBER AND A PAIR OF ELONGATED SPACED APART PARALLEL JAMB MEMBERS, SAID HEAD AND JAMB MEMBERS INCLUDING A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING RECESS THEREIN OPENING INWARDLY OF SAID FRAME FOR RECEIVING A CLOSURE PANEL, SAID SILL MEMBER INCLUDING A PAIR OF LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING SPACED APART PARALLEL RIBS PROJECTING INWARDLY OF SAID FRAME, SAID RIBS HAVING INNER AND OUTER SIDE SURFACES, A FIXED CLOSURE PANEL POSITIONED WITHIN SAID FRAME, SAID PANEL HAVING A DIMENSION BETWEEN THE TOP AND BOTTOM THEREOF GREATER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SILL MEMBER AT THE RIBS AND THE HEAD MEMBER ADJACENT THE RECESS BUT LESS THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SILL MEMBER AT THE RIBS AND THE HEAD MEMBER WITHIN THE RECESS, SAID RIBS BEING NOT GREATER IN EXTENT INWARDLY OF THE FRAME THAN THE DIMENSION BETWEEN THE TOP OF THE PANEL POSITIONED ON THE SILL MEMBER AT THE RIBS AND EXTENDING INTO THE RECESS AND THE BOTTOM OF THE RECESS WHEREBY SAID PANEL IS INSTALLED IN THE FRAME BY INSERTING THE TOP OF THE PANEL WITHIN THE RECESS AND SUBSEQUENTLY LOWERING SAID PANEL OVER SAID RIBS, SAID PANEL BEING PROVIDED WITH SPACED APART PARALLEL SIDE WALLS HAVING LOWER EDGES AT THE BOTTOM THEREOF, SAID LOWER EDGES HAVING INNER AND OUTER SIDE SURFACES, SAID PANEL HAVING A THICKNESS WHEREBY THE INNER SIDE SURFACE OF SAID LOWER EDGES ENGAGE THE OUTER SIDE SURFACE OF SAID LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING RIBS, WITH SAID RIBS POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID LOWER EDGES WITH THE PANEL INSTALLED IN THE FRAME TO PREVENT MOVEMENT OF THE BOTTOM PANEL TRANSVERSELY OF THE SILL MEMBER. 